New changes testable on beta: 2020-08-28

The following changes are now testable on beta. They are planned to be released to live games on 2020-09-08. For the most part these changes only affect newly created CoW1.5 games, created after the time of this post (2020-08-2. If this is not true for a certain change it is marked accordingly.

Buildings:

• Added new building “Recruiting Station” which boosts manpower production in a province by up to +200%. It has 3 levels and is buildable in both urban and non-urban provinces. This is to diversify building roles and create more strategic choices.
  • Removed the manpower production boost from Industry and Local Industry since we now have a separate building for it. Reduced the construction costs and time of Industry and Local Industry to account for this.
• Added new building “Propaganda Office” which boosts morale development in a province up to +40. It has 3 levels and is buildable in both urban and non-urban provinces. This is to diversify building roles and create more strategic choices.
  • Removed morale boost from Infrastructure since we now have a separate building for it. Reduced construction costs and time of Infrastructure to account for this.
• Slightly shifted resource costs around for multiple buildings (without changing their total costs or resource categories) to keep the resource needs distributed evenly among all buildings.

• Capitol:
  • Added a positive morale modifier of +10 to the province it is located in.

Doctrines:

• Panasian:
  • Reduced terrain bonus modifier for existing bonuses from +25% to +20% (absolute values).

• Separated hills and forests terrain into 2 separate terrain types with their own modifiers, and normalized terrain bonuses depending on the average amount of provinces with each terrain on standard maps:
• Anti Air:
  • Removed terrain bonus in forests.
  • Increased terrain bonus in hills.
• Anti Tank:
  • Removed terrain bonus in hills.
  • Increased terrain bonus in forests.
  • Removed stealth ability in hills.
• Artillery:
  • Removed terrain bonus in forests.
  • Increased terrain bonus in hills.
• Commandos:
  • Removed terrain bonus in hills.
  • Increased terrain bonus in forests.
• Infantry:
  • Added terrain bonus in forests.
  • Reduced terrain bonus in mountains slightly.
• Militia:
  • Reduced terrain bonus in hills.
• Paratroopers:
  • Reduced terrain bonus in hills.
  • Removed stealth ability in hills.
• Rocket Artillery:
  • Removed terrain bonus in forests.
  • Increased terrain bonus in hills.
• SP Anti Air:
  • Removed terrain bonus in forests.
  • Increased terrain bonus in hills.
• SP Artillery:
  • Removed terrain bonus in forests.
  • Increased terrain bonus in hills.
  • Reduced terrain bonus in plains slightly.
• SP Rocket Artillery:
  • Removed terrain bonus in forests.
  • Increased terrain bonus in hills.
  • Reduced terrain bonus in plains slightly.
• Tank Destroyer:
  • Removed terrain bonus in plains.
  • Removed terrain bonus in hills.
  • Added terrain bonus in urbans.
  • Increased terrain bonus in forests.
  • Removed stealth ability in hills.
• Other unit changes:

• Nuclear Bomber:
  • Slightly decreased speed to the same level as Strategic Bombers.
  • Replaced Metal costs with Goods costs.
  • Normalized resource costs between Goods and Oil.
• Nuclear rocket:
  • Decreased Hitpoints to the same level as Rocket level 4.
  • Increased flight speed to the same level as Rocket level 4.
  • Normalized resource costs between Oil and Metal.
• Railroad Gun:
  • Changed building level requirement to reach minimum production time from Secret Lab lvl3 to Secret Lab lvl4.
  • Slightly increased production time.
  • Removed all terrain bonuses, since logically it is bound to railways.
  • Increased damage values slightly to make up for loss of terrain bonuses.
• Rocket fighters:
  • Slightly increased Hitpoints.
• Transport Ship:
  • decreased damage on higher levels.
  • Slightly increased research cost.

Mechanics:

• Increased the maximum expansion morale penalty from -35 to -40. This is countered by the now more effective Propaganda Office building.
• From now on only fights near a province center will trigger morale and building damage in that province.

Interface:

• Reworked split army popup. Click on the new - or + button to decrease or increase the selected amount or click on the unit icon to select or deselect all units of a type (also in CoW1.0 and for existing games).
• New building icons for buildings that shared the same icons before (also for existing CoW1.5 games).
• Hills and Forests terrain is now displayed separately in province bar and unit details panel.
• New background for unit section in army bar, depending on the Doctrine used.
• 2 new achievements in player profiles (progress will be awarded retroactively
  • Organ Player: Destroy X units using SP rocket artillery. In Reference to the "Stalin's organ", a nickname several countries gave to the Katyusha rocket launcher.
  • Event Master: Win any event map X times.